Wabbaseka-Tucker School District, previously the Wabbaseka School District No. 7, was a school district in

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, serving Wabbaseka,

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, and Plum Bayou. The district operated two schools: Wabbaseka Elementary School and Wabbaseka High School. At one time the district also operated Tucker Elementary School.

History

By the 1980s the administration of the

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sought to be annexed by the Wabbaseka School District due to financial difficulties; the Plum Bayou-Tucker district was to be dissolved with Wabbaseka absorbing the new territory.WOODARD v. WABBASEKA-TUCKER PUB. SCH. DIST Supreme Court of Arkansas 286 Ark. 110 (Ark. 1985)
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at Casetext.com. Opinion delivered May 20, 1985. Retrieved on August 1, 2017
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. Retrieved on July 31, 2017. The former Plum Bayou-Tucker district had employed 21 teachers; the consolidated district retained 19 of them. In 1989 the district had 283 students. On September 1, 1993, the Wabbaseka-Tucker district consolidated with the Altheimer-Sherrill School District to form the

Altheimer Unified School District Altheimer Unified School District No. 22, previously the Altheimer-Sherrill School District, was a school district headquartered in Altheimer, Arkansas. It served Altheimer, Sherrill, Wabbaseka, and other portions of Jefferson County, including ...

. The territory merged into the

Dollarway School District Dollarway School District No. 2 (DSD) was a school district headquartered in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, United States. With over 1,600 students and employing more than 300 educators and staff, the district had three active school campuses at the end o ...

on July 10, 2006. and it joined the

Pine Bluff School District Pine Bluff School District No. 3 (PBSD) is a school district headquartered in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The district has 10 schools with over 3,800 students and 500 employees. The headquarters are the Jordan-Chanay Administrative Center in Pine Blu ...

effective July 1, 2021.

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